Maybe just tell us what you think has changed so radically because we are genuinely at a loss to understand why anyone would say this.
Charles didn’t abandon his dream at the drop of a hat. He may still have his doubts. He undertook some pragmatic actions like subverting Cerebro to a new cause but he didn’t act upon this and use it for anything radical until now. Magneto actively abandoned Moira’s cause and did his own thing before coming back to the fold. Sinister is shown as just one aspect of that strange collective, so everything he did remains identical and the part he played in the new status quo is directly from a recent book. So what exactly is so groundbreaking?
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That is a strange definition of majority. I am pretty sure I am not unrepresentative of comic readers of my age and I have never consumed any of those supposed cultural touchstones. Not even a single Tansformers movie new or old. I didn’t realise I was in such a minority.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You should try to read that again. For someone to whine about disingenuous questions, you've brought a ton of it in pretty much every reply in this thread.
Hickman, Marvel, and all of us enjoying it have nothing to apologize for. You berating people isn't going to change any minds either.
Just because your opinion is popular does not make it correct by default. Especially when it means ignoring glaring problems in the work.
And claiming I'm the one whining when nearly every reply to me has badly misconstrued what I'm saying, going to some hyperbolic extreme, or just plain ignoring what has been written is really rich.
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I dislike all three properties (and absolutely revile 50 Shades). But I will admit that between the three of them, they have made more money than X-Men comics ever have. Obviously someone out there likes them if they make that much money.
But that's beside the point. Just because something is popular does not make it correct by default.
I assure you I am genuinely asking. I’m not sure what I said in my post that you felt was disingenuous. If it was the bit about the complaints seeming more like folks not understanding all the details of this story, sorry, but that’s how it seems to me.
Yes, there are some changes. But they don’t fundamentally alter the franchise. If you’d like to give examples and discuss, cool. If not, that’s cool too.
I'm talking about what you said about retcons. I said twice that the use of retcons should only be used in the absolute worst case. Writers over the years have abused that to the point of meaninglessness, and it created the issue we have now. People just accept grand sweeping changes and retcons, pointless deaths and revivals, and complete and total 180 character shifts because that's how it has been written for years. And while Hickman's run may not be the absolute worst example of this, it is a culmination of issues.